Word: elegante
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Vibrant, even gaudy, Williams’ oil-painting “Red and Purple Deal” (2001) uses bold, almost Warholesque colors and swirling lines to create an elegant interchange. Almost dizzying to look at, each line appears to be a dancer, sensuously curved and filled with fluid motion...
She blossomed in her role with the couple's visit to Europe later in 1961. Her "flawless French," exquisite sense of style and formidable knowledge of French history had both General Charles de Gaulle and his nation at her feet; even Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was smitten. A later, solo...
Joan Didion, known largely for her fiction but also for her logical, meticulous and truthful essay writing, wants us to know exactly how little control we have over the process. In her elegant and incisive depiction of the usurpation of the political system, Political Fictions, Didion contends that politics has...
A quarter of the way through Borrowed Finery, novelist Paula Fox’s new memoir, the author’s father makes a fitting observation. “People who’ve been parceled out and knocked around,” he says, “are always...
[an error occurred while processing this directive]In the grand and elegant setting of the White House East Room, President Bush was by turns stern, folksy, animated, and subdued - but he never strayed from focusing on the war against terrorism that has transformed himself and his administration. Mr. Bush seemed...